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Specification 01 Letters r una Pat t d, 0 11-30, 191 '7. I

Application filed December 24 1914. Serial at. 97am.

depth from their centers toward the sidesv Be it known thatI, ANDREW P.WInLrA'Ms, a citiz'en'of'the United States, residinsg at 'Chicago,-inthe county of Cook and tate of Illmois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Car Ends, of which the following is aspecification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanying draw- Iyinvention relates to railway freight cars, and particularly to theconstruction of the carend, and it consists in the matters hereinafterdescribed and then pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1- is a ,view in elevation of a carend embody .ing the features of mypresent invention;

Fig. 2 is a top pla-n View of the car end; Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional view taken on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1, and Fig.4 is a sideview of he parts of Fig. 1.

The sides 9 of the car are'constructed of any suitable material,preferably sheet metal plates connected to'the car-frame to 25 theconstruction of my car end I employ a plurality of sheet/metal plates 10of sufii cient length to extend across the end of the which my improvedcar end is secured. In

car and ofsuflicient width when superposed to form the entire end wallof the car, in the present illustration four such plates being employedarranged one above the other. The adjacent plates areprovided near theirmeeting edges with horizontally disposed stiffening ribs 11 whlch extendalong the length of the plates and are bent outwardly toward the frontof the car, each of the ribs being preferably bent at an obtuse angle toits plate and provided with a verticalflange 12 so that these edges aresubstantially "L-shaped in section, and when the plates are assembledthe flanges 12 will overlap or telescope as clearly shown in Fig.

The overlapping flanges 12 of adjacent lates arebeyond or outside of theplane of'thebody of the plates where they are secured together by rivets13 as shown, so that the meeting edges of the plates are united-'to forma substantially outwardly projecting channel beam construction. Theoutward projection of the horizontal ribs 11 of adjacent plates providesa trough in the inner wall of the "car for the rivets so that thecontents of the car are protected from inilury bythe rivets,

The orizontal ribs taper in width or of'the car as shown in Fig. 2,their maxi mum width being at the center of the car end and mergin' withthe plane of the plates near the'si es of the car. I

The upper edge of the to cured tothe' usual endlate 0 the car body,

plateis seand the lower edge 0 the bottom plate is provided with arearwardly extending flange 14 secured to the usual end sill-of the carbody orfloor, and the'ends of each of the plates are provided withangularly ex tended side flanges 15- to, be secured to-the car sides,the side: flanges being; arranged'to telescope according as theyareas'sociated with the outer or inner vertical flangesl m of adjacentplates, as shown in the draw ings. provided with angular extensions orears 16 a bent to form to extend more or lessalong? and be secured tothe car sides to provide The top and bottom plates'are also corner bandsatthe top and bottom of each H car corner. The-ears are as long as theteg'ral side flanges of their assoeiatedton and bottom plates so thatthey extendreab wardly beyond the joint of each such plate with anadjacent plate, and bythis construction the ears form extendedcorner-bands that include not only' thecar-corners but also the jointsof the top and bottom plates with adjacent plates, and so eliminate notonly the ordinary corner but also theseparate e251: artie-plates'employed at the meeting es of the top and. bottomend-plateswith a jacent plates."

gnssets or braces By my invention the ribs and overlappin l flanges ofthe plates may be formed by col pressing when the plates are formed,there by dispensing with the expensive and time consuming operation ofheating the plates and pressing ribs or corrugations in'theirbodies whenso heated, while the charmel beam provides a strong bracing or strength-1 00..

enmg construction, which also for ms, a pro v tecting groove or troughfor the rivets," and the angular ears extended around the cornersprovide a strong band for the top and bottom of the car corners.

I claim: 1 A car-body end constructed of a plurality of superposed metalplates havin meeting edges formed with outwar y projecting horizontalribs extending length- 1 wise of the plates and provided with overtheirlapping vertical flanges, the flanges of each pair of adjacent platesbeing riveted to gather, and anguhu'ly extended. integral In testinwnjwhereof I affix my signature sule flanges 011 the plates, the sldsflanges 1n presence of two witnesses.

of adjacent plates overlappim and the side 1 flanges of the top and bottahl plate-s ex- ANDRPJVV WILLIAMb' 5 tending reali'wzurdl y beyond theirjoints with Witnesses:

ad aCent plates t.o f0rn.1 extended ears pro- J. Mcliomsn'rs, uhngc0r1'1er-bunds 1n the car-body. Em'ru Wlmox.

